EU Policy Responses to a Shifting Multilateral System

Esther Barbé is Professor of International Relations at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and Research Programme Coordinator at the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals, Spain.Oriol Costa is Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and Associate Researcher at the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals, Spain. Robert Kissack is Head of Studies at the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals, Spain. He has previously taught at the London School of Economics and the University of East Anglia.

• Tables and figures.- Preface and acknowledgements.- Abbreviations.- Contributors.- 1. Accommodating or entrenching? How the EU is dealing with changes in the multilateral system; Oriol Costa, Robert Kissack and Esther Barbé.- 2. The irony of history: European responses to the contested evolution of the nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament regime; Benjamin Kienzle.- 3. An Upstream Battle: The EU and the Reform of the Energy Charter Treaty; Anna Herranz-Surrallés.- 4. The Defence of an Institution under Challenge: The EU and the International Criminal Court; Gemma Collantes-Celador.- 5. EU trade policy reaction to the BIC: from accommodation to entrenchment; Patricia Garcia-Duran, Montserrat Millet and Jan Orbie.- 6. Beijing after Kyoto? The EU and the new climate in climate negotiations; Oriol Costa.- 7. Supporting practices inspired by solidarist ideas: The EU in the UNSC Open Debates on Women, Peace andSecurity; Esther Barbé.- 8. The Global Financial Crisis and Emerging Economies: EU accommodation and entrenchment in the IMF;

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